Donhead St. Mary, Shaftesbury, Dorset

This spectacular former Art Deco house was fully modernised in 2014 to create a particularly light and airy family home. It enjoys high ceilings and extremely well-proportioned rooms throughout. All rooms boast views over the surrounding gardens and grounds, making this a truly private and secluded setting for a country house.

The accommodation is set over 2 floors and extends to over 4,400 sqft making this a superb family home. On entering the house, one is greeted by a stunning reception hall with its beautiful solid oak floor and matching suspended staircase with glass sides. From the hallway, doors lead through to all the main rooms making this a fantastic house to entertain in and perfect for everyday living. The kitchen/breakfast room boasts an ergonomically designed fitted kitchen with integrated appliances and an Everhot, and a superb ceramic tiled floor beneath. Bi-fold doors open out to the rear sun terrace at one end, whilst a long well fitted utility room and boot room are to the other and a door that leads through to the media/home office room. The sunken drawing room is a most elegant room featuring a raised open fireplace, a hidden wet bar and steps up to the library, which features extensive fitted bookcases. To complete the ground floor reception rooms, a large dining room that can comfortably sit 12 guests is accessed both from the breakfast area (through a pair of bookshelf secret doors) or from the main hall. It should be noted that underfloor heating runs through the main hall, kitchen, boot room, cloakroom, media room and dining room whilst the house also benefits from a powerful internal vacuum system as well as ceiling speakers to the kitchen, dining room and main bedroom and bathroom.

The landing to the first floor is almost an extension to reception hall where, once again, one enjoys a real sense of bright and airy space, which gives access to all the bedrooms, which one can note from the floor plan. All bedrooms are of double size with the principal bedroom taking centre stage with its spacious en suite bath and shower room, laundry chute, separate dressing room and lovely balcony.

Gardens and grounds
Long Copse is approached via a long, private tree lined track driveway which opens out in front of the house where parking for numerous cars can be found. Wonderful gardens abound the house and feature a magnificent array of mature trees, shrubs, Rhododendrons bushes and hedgerows. There is a large lawned garden to the rear with an extensive paved sun terrace running across the back of the house, whilst to the western side lies further gardens and the enclosed floodlit hard surface tennis court. Much of the woodlands the house enjoys lie either side of the driveway, whilst a further copse of woodland lies to the southern side creating a most secluded plot. To the front of the house is a double garage and a useful outbuilding incorporating a wood store, boiler room with a fully automated wood pellet boiler with 5 tonne store and workshop.

The property is situated on the outskirts of the historic market town of Shaftesbury and close the sought after village of Donhead St Mary. Shaftesbury offers a great choice of shops, supermarkets and leisure facilities. Tisbury offers further amenities, schooling and a leisure centre, as well as a mainline station, providing direct services to London Waterloo. Historic Salisbury is 17 miles away, with its wealth of shopping and leisure facilities. Local road connections include the A350, which provides easy access to the A303. Airports are located at Bristol, Bournemouth. State schooling is provided locally with a well thought of primary schools at Wardour and Semley. Independent schools of note include Sandroyd, Port Regis, Warminster School, Clayesmore, Gilliingham, Salisbury Cathedral School, Bryanston and Sherborne.